Frequently Asked Questions

tweetymail is a Twitter client. To use it, you send it emails. Depending on which "@tweetymail.com" address you send your email to, tweetymail can do different things. For example, you can send an email to tweet@tweetymail.com to post a tweet. See the tweetymail user guide for more details.

Yes, and twittermail looks like a great service! Consider this an alternative that does things differently. For starters, tweetymail knows who you are based on the "from" address of your emails. Instead of having to send emails to your own secretly generated email address, you can send emails to normal email addresses such as tweet@tweetymail.com, follow@tweetymail.com, and message@tweetymail.com. This approach is very simple and allows tweetymail to support more features than the other email-to-twitter services out there. Most importantly, tweetymail was designed for convenience. Some of the convenient features include:

• Flexibility to use the subject line and/or body of your emails when tweeting
• Automatic URL shortening
• Ability to ignore your email signature
• Support for actions based on forwarded Twitter notification emails

I created tweetymail to greatly simplify certain twitter tasks for myself (like tweeting links from an iPhone). I hope that others will find it useful too!

Yes, this is a long standing problem with email. Fortunately, there are a few email authentication protocols such as Sender Policy Framework and DomainKeys Identified Mail that help prevent forgery. tweetymail relies on protocols such as these to verify the sender of an email and will reject any email that fails verification. I cannot guarantee that it's completely foolproof, but hey, I trust it enough to use it myself :-)

This happens because Google is not authorized to send emails as you according to the Sender Policy Framework. You can fix this by publishing an SPF record that authorizes Google to send emails on behalf of your domain.

Funny you ask, because the answer is yes! Since Google Calendar always sends reminders to your Gmail account, you first need to create a filter in Gmail that will forward the reminder to tweet@tweetymail.com (see this how-to if you need help). On the tweetymail side of things, you simply need to link the Gmail address that will be forwarding the calendar reminder. You should not link 'calendar-notification@google.com' because this will not work.

Great! Feel free to send your feedback and suggestions to @anilchawla via Twitter.